Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Connectivity (1991)" video.

  1. 12:49 With X.25, it wasn’t time, the charge was per data packet. Something like a few cents per 64K as I recall. That can add up to big bucks pretty quickly.
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  2. 6:40 Netware Lite ... at this point I don’t think Microsoft Windows had built-in peer-to-peer file sharing. Apple’s System 7 (introduced earlier this same year) did.
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  3. VNC can tunnel over an SSH connection. X2Go can do that as well.
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  4. Certain computer OSes try to hide the fact that you are using a computer at all. Stay away from them, and there is still plenty of fun to be had.
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  5. 18:09 They’re using an address in the 3/8 block. I think that was originally assigned to General Electric.
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  6. No, Windows didn’t. It wasn’t (yet) an OS, the OS was only DOS.
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  7.  @floydjohnson7888  To be fair, VNC and SSH would not have existed back in the (earlier) 1990s.
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  8. I met C K Haun at an Apple developer conference in the early 1990s. He sampled his wife’s voice for a shareware game he put out. And then somehow somebody else picked up the sample and submitted it for inclusion as one of the standard System 7 beep noises.
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  9.  @halfsourlizard9319  Or better still, use one where the GUI is just a separate modular, replaceable layer, rather than something baked into an inextricable monolith.
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